TFG Bit.ches Out: DISARMAMENT PROGRAM CALLED OFF

[AbdiWahab252]

The TFG has called off its disarmament program. It was to start today.

Disarming Mogadishu only will not be tolerated while Puntland keeps their weapons, who the fock is stupid to accept that ?

Somali Gov't Halts Disarmament Program


Saturday, January 06, 2007

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Somalia's interim government on Saturday indefinitely postponed plans to forcibly disarm Mogadishu as hundreds of people burned tires, looted vehicles and said they wouldn't give up their guns. Two people were reported killed and at 17 people wounded.

The protest came a day after al-Qaida's deputy leader called on Muslim militants to attack Ethiopian troops, who helped government forces chase Somalia's Islamic militia from the capital last week. Some Islamic fighters hiding in Mogadishu said they would heed the call.

About 400 protesters gathered at Tribunka Square in a southern neighborhood, shouting "Down, down with Ethiopia" and demanding an end to the disarmament plan.

"We don't want disarmament only in Mogadishu. We want all the people (of Somalia) and all the clans to be disarmed simultaneously," said Dahil Abukar, one of the protesters.

Gunfire broke out during the demonstration, but it was not immediately clear what set off the violence.

A nurse at Medina Hospital said a government soldier was killed when his own hand grenade exploded accidentally. Dr. Dahir Mohamud at the same hospital said a 13-year-old boy was killed by bullets and the hospital was treating 17 other people wounded by gunshots.

Abdirahman Dinari, spokesman for the 2-year-old, U.N.-backed transitional government, told The Associated Press that plans to forcibly disarm the city this week had been delayed.

"The prime minister has decided to postpone disarming people by force until an unspecified time," Dinari said. He did not say why Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi reversed his stand.

The ease with which Somalis can get weapons is a major problem in this chaotic African nation, which has not had an effective government since clan-based warlords toppled a military dictatorship in 1991 and plunged the country into anarchy.

The Council of Islamic Courts militia had brought a semblance of stability to Mogadishu after seizing control six months ago, but it terrified residents with a version of Quranic rule that included public executions and floggings of criminals.

Government troops, backed by the Ethiopian military, routed the Islamic militia from much of southern Somalia last week. Many of the militiamen are now besieged at the southernmost tip of Somalia with their backs to the sea, but the government estimates 3,500 fighters are hiding out in Mogadishu.

Some of the fighters in hiding told The Associated Press on Thursday that they would heed a call from Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's deputy, for guerrilla attacks and suicide bombings against the troops from Ethiopia, which has a large Christian population.

"I am committed to die for the sake of my religion and the al-Qaida deputy's speech only encourages me to go ahead with my holy war," 18-year-old Sahal Abdi in Mogadishu said in a phone interview.

Leaders of the Islamic movement previously vowed to launch an Iraq-style guerrilla war.

Ethiopian soldiers, tanks and warplanes intervened Dec. 24 in support of the interim Somali government, which at the time controlled only the western town of Baidoa. But Ethiopia's government wants to pull out in a few weeks, saying it cannot afford to keep its troops in Somalia.

The government is trying to train and expand its own military and police while an international diplomatic effort seeks to put a foreign peacekeeping force in place.

A meeting of U.S., European Union, African and Arab diplomats ended in Kenya on Friday with a U.S. pledge to provide $40 million to Somalia in political, humanitarian and peacekeeping assistance, and a plan to ask more African nations to send troops to help stabilize the country. Uganda has pledged at least 1,000 peacekeepers.

The EU said it also would help pay for a peacekeeping force envisioned at 8,000 soldiers.

On Friday, U.S. warships patrolled offshore to prevent militiamen from escaping by sea.

The U.S. 5th Fleet said vessels were being boarded to look for militants, including three al-Qaida suspects wanted for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa. The Islamic council has denied U.S. allegations that the three were leaders in the Somali movement.

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Associated Press writers Elizabeth A. Kennedy in Mogadishu and Chris Tomlinson in Nairobi, Kenya, contributed to this report.

Source: AP, Jan 06, 2007

[Somali-Transporter]

I Told you guys... or else Mogadishu will burn..!

[biko]

does the TFG has any clue of what they doing?

or are they runing around with whatever Meles zenawi wispers in their ears.?

[Ashlee~]

PM geedi was clearly mistaken that a whole city could disarm in three days. He needs to put a comprehensive plan in which the people are compensated for the weapons and incentives are given to people like a future job etc

[Somaliweyn]

Save us the bullshit.


Bottom-line is:

Somali people must never hand over their weapons to Tigre's and their puppet government in Somalia.

Long live to Somali freedom and security

[Ashlee~]

Save us your Bull shit. The people of Xamar and of All of Somalia want a dawlad they want progress they want militia men off the streets. Inshallah this will happen.

[Ugaas Diini]

Abdiwahb, now you oppose the TFG? ANyway I am glad the people of Mogdishu are rejecting the traitors......

[Somaliman%]

AW What a flipflopper

[Somali-Transporter]

We will never giv our weapons..!

[biko]

AW

good to have you back bro...at last you are on the side of muslimnimo, somalinimo and dadnimo...

wixii dhacay wa past so no big E

[Somali-Transporter]

VIVA Muslimnimo somalinimo iyo dadnimo

[Ugaas Diini]

Biko, Abdiwahab still supports Ina Caydiid and Yalaxoow, the men who were paid by the U.S government to wipe the wadaado from Mogdishu.

[Somaliman%]

you mean haawiyenimo...

his only not supporting TFG because his against law and order on his savage mooryan clan. who prefer living in anarchy and looting pls property. its basically the same reason he was opposed to ICU.

[Ugaas Diini]

somaliman% do you honestly want law and order for the people of Mogdishu or do you just want to see abdullahi yusuf in mogdishu and ruling the nation with an iron fist with a foriegn might.

[Somaliman%]

ofcourse i want law and order in all of somalia. it's about time we had peace, a government. basically to become what we used to be. a great nation. now we cant stop every government because we dont like the presidents clan. i couldnt care less who's the president of somalia as long as he brings law and order to somalia. he can be any qabil.